How clean were the streets of London during plague?

There is no evidence that the streets of London were any cleaner or dirtier during the plague than at other times. The plague was spread by fleas carried by rats, and so the cleanliness of the streets would have had little impact on its spread.

How did John Hanning Speke die?

What happened to the golden hind?

The Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine (1954)
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King Alexander the Jagiellonian. What good has he done for Poland?
He strengthened the tarnished royal power, thanks to clever reforms he managed to fill the deserted treasury and secure the borders of the state under attack from everywhere. Yet his merits - and even himself - are seldom mentioned. Why? Jan Olbrachts younger brother, Aleksander Jagiellończyk, w
The Lviv pogrom in 1918
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The horned devils. Forgotten heroines of the Second World War
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